Samsung Suede SCH-r710 Coming Soon at Cricket

Samsung has just announced the release of a new touchscreen phone for United States market, the Samsung Suede, which will be available via Cricket. This handset will debut with the new Cricket Muve Music™ service in January 2011.

Samsung Suede (model: SCH-r710) is a slim, stylish full-featured messaging phone. This candybar phone sports a 3" touchscreen color display with 240×400 pixels resolution, featuring a accelerometer, virtual QWERTY keyboard, and a simple TouchWiz user interface. It measures 112.9×55.5×12.7 mm and weighs only 94 g.